Climate Camp Aotearoa, an exploration – Click to download
Hi, I’m Liz.
Last year, I completed a Master’s thesis focusing on Camp for Climate Action Aotearoa (or Climate Camp Aotearoa: it’s easier to type).
Climate Camp Aotearoa is a climate justice-focused collective modelled on Climate Camps in the UK, US and Australia. In November 2009, Climate Camp Aotearoa organised five days of workshops, community building and direct action in Lower Hutt, Wellington, coinciding with the disastrous climate talks in Copenhagen.
While I had an awesome time at the Lower Hutt Climate Camp, my interest in Climate Camp Aotearoa had begun in early 2009, when I got a lift up to Parihaka to attend a Climate Camp Aotearoa hui. Prior to this hui I had never been involved in radical politics, never experienced direct democracy processes, never considered direct action tactics accessible. Climate Camp Aotearoa changed all that.
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The impact that Climate Camp Aotearoa had on my life was clear. So was the topic for my Master’s Thesis.
I spent seventeen months reading, researching, and interviewing, with the aim of exploring how Climate Camp Aotearoa contributes to the politics of climate change in Aotearoa. In the course of this research process I created a short zine for those involved in Climate Camp Aotearoa. This zine explains the results of my research in a factual but (hopefully) not-too-dry style.
Reading this zine could definitely help those wanting to organise another Climate Camp in Aotearoa. It contains a brief explanation of the history of Climate Camps and climate justice, and what describes the factors long-term Climate Camp Aotearoa participants and organisers consider significant in building a Climate Camp.
I consider the most important role of Climate Camp Aotearoa as providing a space for the creation of ‘alternative futures in the present’. Climate Camps are designed as warm, community-rich spaces where new ways of being and acting are accessibly attempted and achieved. This allows a re-politicisation of climate change (an issue commonly framed as depoliticised), and the subsequent politicisation of activists.
If you’d like to read a full copy, please email me at: elizabethjane.wm@gmail.com
You can download the whole thing HERE.